But (A)if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,’ then his master shall bring him to [a]God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.

(B)If a man sells his daughter as a female slave, she is not to [b]go free (C)as the male slaves [c]do.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:6 Or the judges who acted in God’s name
  2. Exodus 21:7 Lit go out
  3. Exodus 21:7 Lit go out